[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Divination book title

[KEN ADAMS]

I, like Geoff, have never heard either of these expressions. I, like Geoff, live 
in the English west country, where JKR spent  much of her childhood and student 
years. I suspect that she hadn't heard these expressions either. So the evidence 
leads me to agree with Geoff that JKR was referring to crystal balls rather than 
unknown idioms on another continent.
Ken




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From: Child Of Midian <md at exit-reality.com>
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, 9 October, 2010 13:05:46
Subject: RE: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Divination book title

  
I hear "to break balls" as to harass or make of someone for something
they've done or some specific thing about them. "stop breaking my balls" or
"I'm just busting your balls" 

md

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[mailto:HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of kemper

Kemper:
There's a subtle difference.
Arduous or monotonous work is ballbreaking. 
To break someone's balls is to demand of them to perform a real or perceived
ballbreaking task generally at a time of their inconvenience. (<---That's an
ugly sentence, but I hope it's understood!) 
Ball-breakers are taskmasters.

Kemper

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